Crushing Opportunity for the Poor

The Obama administration needs to take a longer-term view as to how best to promote career advancement and focus less on short-term dollars and votes.

March 30, 2014 2:47 p.m. ET

Andy Puzder's "Obama's Overtime-Pay Boomerang" (op-ed, March 25) is right on the mark about the trade-off between overtime pay and possible managerial advancement. In my first accounting job after college I wanted to stay until I reached the manager level, as it was generally viewed as the steppingstone for future career advancement whether or not one stayed with the firm. It was also widely known that during those first two years at the manager level, given the overtime requirements of the profession, that managers would earn less compensation than their senior staff members who still were eligible for...